Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: : Updated XFree86 packages provide security and bug fixes

Updated XFree86 packages for Red Hat Linux 7.3 and 8.0 provide security fixes to font libraries and XDM. XFree86 is an implementation of the X Window System providing the core graphical user interface and video drivers in Red Hat Linux. XDM is the X display manager. Multiple integer overflows in...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: : Updated XFree86 packages provide security and bug fixes

Updated XFree86 packages for Red Hat Linux 7.1 and 7.2 provide security fixes to font libraries and XDM. XFree86 is an implementation of the X Window System providing the core graphical user interface and video drivers in Red Hat Linux. XDM is the X display manager. Multiple integer overflows in...

Multiple vulnerabilities in S/MIME implementations

Overview Multiple vulnerabilities exist in different vendors' S/MIME Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions implementations. The impacts of these vulnerabilities are varied and range from denial of service to potential remote execution of arbitrary code. Description The U.K. National...

SSH Communications Secure Shell vulnerable to DoS via malformed BER/DER packet

Overview SSH Communications' Secure Shell contains vulnerabilities in ASN.1 libraries that may allow remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service situation, or potentially execute arbitrary code on the server. Description SSH Communications' Secure Shell contains a vulnerability in the decoding ...

RealPlayer 9 *nix - Local Privilege Escalation

RealPlayer 9 nix - Local Privilege Escalation / rp9-priv-esc.c A local privilege escalation attack against the community supported version of Real.com's Realplayer, version 9. Written by: Jon Hart warchild spoofed.org By default, configuration files are stored in $USER/.realnetworks/, but all the...

RealOne Player for Linux 2.2 Alpha - Insecure Configuration File Permission Privilege Escalation

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8571/info The configuration files for the RealOne Player are installed in the a hidden folder in a users home directory. The issue presents itself, because configuration files stored in this directory are installed with insecure permissions. This means...

RealPlayer 9 *nix Local Privilege Escalation Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits ==================================================== RealPlayer 9 nix Local Privilege Escalation Exploit ==================================================== / rp9-priv-esc.c A local privilege escalation attack against the community supported...

CVE-2003-0730

Multiple integer overflows in the font libraries for XFree86 4.3.0 allow local or remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via heap-based and stack-based buffer overflow attacks...

XFree86 libraries integer overflow

Integer overflows on font server functions...

Multiple integer overflows in XFree86 (local/remote)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Remote and local vulnerabilities in XFree86 font libraries Product: XFree86 4.3.0 Impact: Potential privilege escalation / remote code execution Bug class: Integer overflow Vendor notified: Yes Fix available: Yes see end of advisory Details: I have...

CVE-2003-0449

Progress Database 9.1 to 9.1D06 trusts user input to find and load libraries using dlopen, which allows local users to gain privileges via 1 a PATH environment variable that points to malicious libraries, as demonstrated using libjutil.so inproapsv, or 2 the -installdir command line parameter, as...

IBM DB2 - Shared Library Injection

IBM DB2 - Shared Library Injection source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8346/info IBM DB2 ships with a number of shared libraries, stored in a directory owned by the user and group 'bin'. As setuid root utilities are linked to these libraries, their ownership by a user and group of a lower...

CVE-2003-0449

Progress Database 9.1 to 9.1D06 trusts user input to find and load libraries using dlopen, which allows local users to gain privileges via 1 a PATH environment variable that points to malicious libraries, as demonstrated using libjutil.so inproapsv, or 2 the -installdir command line parameter, as...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: : : : Updated bind packages fix buffer overflow in resolver library

Updated BIND packages that fix a number of vulnerabilities are now available for Red Hat Linux on IBM iSeries and pSeries systems. ISC BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain is an implementation of the DNS Domain Name System protocols. BIND includes a DNS server named, which resolves host names to IP...

Progress Database 9.1 - Environment Variable Privilege Escalation

Progress Database 9.1 - Environment Variable Privilege Escalation // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7916/info It has been reported that Progress database does not properly handle untrusted input when opening shared libraries. Specifically, the dlopen function used by several Progress...

Progress Database 9.1 - Environment Variable Privilege Escalation

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7916/info It has been reported that Progress database does not properly handle untrusted input when opening shared libraries. Specifically, the dlopen function used by several Progress utilities checks the user's PATH environment variable when includin...

Viewpoint Server

------------------------------- Application: Viewpoint Server Vendor: DS Ltd Language: Shell OS: Unixes Discovered: Ben Maynard bmaynardatvoodooxdotnet ------------------------------- Application Description: Viewpoint server is a web application that allow users to view catalogs at their local...

CVE-2002-0512

startkde in KDE for Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 through 3.1.1 sets the LDLIBRARYPATH environment variable to include the current working directory, which could allow local users to gain privileges of other users running startkde via Trojan horse libraries...

CVE-2003-0028

Integer overflow in the xdrmemgetbytes function, and possibly other functions, of XDR external data representation libraries derived from SunRPC, including libnsl, libc, glibc, and dietlibc, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain integer values in length fields, a different...

DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0028

Integer overflow in the xdrmemgetbytes function, and possibly other functions, of XDR external data representation libraries derived from SunRPC, including libnsl, libc, glibc, and dietlibc, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain integer values in length fields, a different...